The ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 graphics processor unleashes the power of Microsoft® DirectX® 10 with awesome graphics performance, stunning visual effects, and more dynamic interactivity than ever before. Surpass reality with today’s popular game titles harnessing our next-generation unified shader engine with 320 unified stream processors and a 512-bit memory interface. Overwhelm your senses with ultra lifelike game physics capabilities and built-in HDMI with multi-channel 5.1 surround audio for an immersive experience that will delight the most discerning gamer.
The powerful graphics performance, improved stability and reliability delivered by the ATI Radeon HD 2900 GPU enable an astonishing visual experience with the stunning Aero™ user interface for Windows Vista™. ATI Catalyst™ Control Center software enables quick setup of graphics, video, and multiple displays, and automatically configures optimal system settings for gaming and video playback. Plug-n-play CrossFire™ multi-GPU upgradeability makes it easy to boost performance with all of today’s games, and scale up graphics performance for the most demanding games of tomorrow.
ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Feature Summary
- 700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
- 512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface
- Ring Bus Memory Controller
- Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.0
o Shader Model 4.0
o Geometry Shaders
o Stream Output
o Integer and Bitwise Operations
o Alpha to Coverage
o Constant Buffers
o State Objects
o Texture Arrays
- Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
- Anti-aliasing features
- Texture filtering features
- CrossFire™ Multi-GPU Technology
o Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
o Integrated compositing engine
o High performance dual channel interconnect
- ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform
o Two independent display controllers
o Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
o Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
o HDMI output support
o Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
o HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
o HD video processing
o MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
o VGA mode support on all display outputs
- PCI Express x16 bus interface
- OpenGL 2.0 support